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Tips for brains like yours

ADHD strategies, focus techniques, and gentle productivity tips. Written by Nori, for you.

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How to Build a Dopamine Menu for Your ADHD Brain

A dopamine menu sorts tasks by what they cost you, not how urgent they look. Build one in ten minutes and stop staring at an unpickable list.

Dec 18, 20257 min read

ADHD Focus

ADHD and Object Permanence: What's Actually Happening When Things Vanish

ADHD 'object permanence' isn't really object permanence. A psychiatrist-backed look at the working memory glitch behind out of sight, out of mind, and what helps.

Jun 16, 202610 min read

ADHD Focus

ADHD and Sleep: Breaking the Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Cycle

Staying up until 2AM is not a discipline failure. It's your brain reclaiming the only unstructured hours it got all day. Gentler ways to wind down.

Feb 3, 202610 min read

Mental Wellness

ADHD Burnout: When Your Brain Hits Empty (And What Actually Helps)

ADHD burnout grows out of years of masking and compensating, not too many meetings. How to spot the slide early and recover in a way that lasts.

Jan 30, 20269 min read

Mental Wellness

ADHD Emotional Dysregulation: When Feelings Hit Like a Truck

Feelings that arrive at full volume with zero warning are neurology, not drama. A field guide to riding ADHD emotional waves instead of sinking.

Jan 25, 20269 min read

ADHD Focus

How to Break Tasks Into Tiny Steps (Without Overthinking It)

Told to 'break it down,' ADHD brains often build a 47-item list and stall harder. The Next Step Method asks one question and skips the planning spiral.

Jan 20, 20269 min read

Productivity

ADHD Morning Routines That Actually Work (No 5AM Wake-Ups Required)

No 5AM club, no ten-step checklist. A workable ADHD morning is one anchor task, fewer decisions, and a backup plan for the rough days.

Jan 15, 20269 min read

Productivity

Energy Matching: How to Pick Tasks Based on How You Actually Feel

Some hours you could write a novel; some hours brushing your teeth is a project. Energy matching plans around that reality instead of denying it.

Jan 10, 20268 min read

ADHD Focus

ADHD Waiting Mode: Why You Can't Do Anything Before The Thing

A 2pm appointment swallows the entire morning. ADHD waiting mode has real causes you can name, and your day doesn't have to vanish into the countdown.

Jan 2, 20268 min read

ADHD Focus

ADHD Paralysis: Why Your Brain Freezes (And How to Unfreeze It)

ADHD paralysis is a freeze response, not a failure of will. What the research says about why your brain locks up, and five ways to get moving again.

Dec 30, 20259 min read